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 : Let then thy father and mother feed thee, who have not taught thee to earn bread.


 * In Jerusalem I earned honourably by the means they taught me, and here too—but the bread burns that my father brings from Babylon; hard it is to eat from a father’s slavery.


 * Not only bread thy father brings, but also golden rings.

(to all): Teach this Levite that gold burns, and not only shines.

(slyly): Why does thy father’s work burn so?


 * Am I judged here or my father? Bring then all fathers to judgment, that for their family lose their souls.


 * Why didst not cry to the nation to feed thee with the bread wherewith it feeds Levites and cripples?


 * I am not Levite nor cripple.

(to his father): Daddy, give me bread!


 * I have none, my son.


 * Dost see? He heard talk of bread and eating, and says too, “Give me bread.”